10 Best Recipes To Use Up a Jar of Natural Peanut Butter

If you have peanut butter to use up, you need these 10 recipes! From a dip for spring rolls to no-bake cookies, you'll be scraping the bottom of the jar in no time.

10 Best Recipes To Use Up a Jar of Natural Peanut Butter
Breakfast Cookies Recipe
Marta Rivera

Peanut butter is a staple at our house. With five growing kids, it’s a budget-friendly source of protein and my kids love it with a variety of fruits or even with celery (whoever came up with Ants on a Log has my deepest devotion).

At any given moment, I have at least four to five jars in my pantry. Yep, I told you we're a peanut butter loving family! However, in recent years I have been trying to switch to fewer processed foods and cutting down on sugar, and switching to natural peanut butter was an easy way for me to do that.

The Simply Recipes Team decided to taste-test several different brands of na-tural peanut butter to see which one came out on top, and as you can imagine, I was over the moon! I won’t go into all the details about what natural creamy peanut butter is or how best to stir it. Instead, I’ve decided to round-up a few of our best recipes that would be great with natural peanut butter.

After all, I've got a ton of peanut butter in my fridge that needs to be used up from our taste test, and I’m not letting it go to waste!

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Buckeye Pancakes on a Plate with Raspberries and Chocolate Chips
Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

Contributor Thao Thai says, "A dash of cinnamon would play nicely with the flavors."

No Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies drizzled in peanut butter
Cindy Rahe

These are a classic cookie that use up peanut butter and they’re the easiest cookies in all the land. Get your kids involved in the kitchen and have them help you whip up a batch or two!

Sesame Peanut Noodles

Bowl of Quick and Easy Sesame Peanut Noodles
Simply Recipes / Hannah Zimmerman

Contributor Hannah Zimmerman says, "If you want to give your noodles a kick, add a tablespoon of chili oil or Sriracha to the sauce."

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Energy Balls

Peanut Butter Protein Balls
Leela Cyd Ross

My family goes crazy over these every single time I make them and trust me, we make these often! They have a handful of simple ingredients and you can easily add mix-ins if your heart desires!

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

Simple peanut butter banana smoothie topped with sliced bananas and a bunch of bananas and a small container of peanut butter behind it.
Alison Bickel

Contributor Katie Morford says, "Making this smoothie with a frozen banana is key. The banana lends natural sweetness, and when frozen, does wonders for the texture."

Oatmeal Almond Butter Breakfast Cookies

Breakfast Cookies Recipe
Marta Rivera

Cookies for breakfast? Count me in. While these say to use almond butter, be a rebel and use natural peanut butter. I give you my permission because... COOKIES FOR BREAKFAST.

Almond Butter Date Balls

Date almond butter coconut balls
Alison Conklin

These little gems are the perfect traveling companion, and they’re so easy to make. All you need is a food processor and you’re good to go! As with a couple of other recipes in this round-up, even though these were made with almond butter at first, it’s perfectly acceptable to use natural peanut butter!

Shrimp Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce

Shrimp Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce
Lisa Lin

These spring rolls are so light and fresh and the peanut sauce compliments the flavors of the vegetables in a way that will have you swooning. You can definitely serve them as an appetizer or enjoy them as a light lunch.

African Chicken Peanut Stew

African Chicken Peanut Stew
Elise Bauer

Peanut butter in stew? I’m all in. This is one of our more popular recipes and it’s not hard to see why! Peanut butter? Good. Chicken? Good. Yams? So good!

Thai Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce

How to Make a Thai Noodle Salad
Jessica Gavin

When you hear the phrase “Taste the rainbow” I’m pretty sure they're talking about this gorgeous salad. You won’t be able to get enough of the peanut dressing, so you might as well make a double batch!